LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant about three Irish miles south, on the evening of the 17th May, and reported that a vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank. The Life-boat John...
Category: Services
Rescue Call
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
Category: Articles
A Meteor Aeroplane (1)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...
Y.L.A. Section
On the afternoon of 22nd July, 1970, after parting company with the Y.L.A.
chairman homeward bound in his Black Cygnet, I was on passage in our 7-ton sloop Ar-Men from FAbervrac'h bound for Roscoff. It was a fine sunny...
Category: Articles
Clutching Her Pooh Bear Laura Glover
Clutching her Pooh bear Laura Glover prepares to take part in the annual Pooh sticks race held on the bridge at Little Wittenham in Oxfordshire in January. In spite of rain and wind, 240 adults and children took part in the race, held over a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Understatement of great magnitude We are grateful to L. J. Robertson who, in his letter in the autumn journal, puts so succinctly our own feelings towards the manner of the rescue reports: '. . . understatement of great magnitude . . ....
Category: Correspondence
Letters
Trading Stamps Appeal May I say a big thank you to all the readers who have sent me trading stamps? I have at last raised £10,000 and am so grateful for all the help and encouragement I have received.
I started in a...
Category: Correspondence
Salvor and H.M. Destroyer Whirlwind
JANUARY 4TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 11.2 P.M. a confidential message was received from the Mersey Dock Board that H.M. Destroyer Whirlwind was ashore on the West Training Wall off C.14 Red Buoy. A S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea...
Eau de Vie
Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore galeThe coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives of eight people from a dismasted yacht...
Yes I'D Do It All Again By Rosemarie Ide
IT WAS ONE of those glorious days. A day to be taken out and inspected and admired now and then in years to come.
It would make one feel warm and good all over again. A glad-to-be-alive day.
The sun was...
Category: Articles